Page not found error - Writing your first Django app, part 1 - django

Question

I have installed Django 2.2.5 in my conda environment and I'm following the Django tutorial for Writing your first Django app, part 1
I followed the steps exactly but I'm getting a Page Not Found error when I try to access the polls/ url.
My root directory structure is like this
mysite/
manage.py
db.sqlite3
urls.py
mysite/
__init__.py
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py
polls/
migrations/
__init__.py
admin.py
apps.py
models.py
tests.py
urls.py
views.py
And my view is like this
D:\TEMP\djangotest\mysite\polls\views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
def index(request):
return HttpResponse("Hello World. You're at the polls index")
My two urls files are like this
D:\TEMP\djangotest\mysite\polls\urls.py
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index, name='index'),
]
D:\TEMP\djangotest\mysite\urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path
urlpatterns = [
path('polls/', include('polls.urls')),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
And I run the app from the environment like this
(py3.6) D:\TEMP\djangotest\mysite>python manage.py runserver
But when I go to the url indicated in the tutorial it give the 404 error - page not found from the console
October 21, 2019 - 16:23:13
Django version 2.2.5, using settings 'mysite.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
Not Found: /polls
[21/Oct/2019 16:23:19] "GET /polls HTTP/1.1" 404 1954
From the browser it look like
Page not found (404)
Request Method:
GET
Request URL:
http://localhost:8000/polls
Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
admin/
The current path, polls, didn't match any of these.
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.

Answer 1

Your main urls file is in the wrong directory. It looks like you've created a separate urls.py in the base "mysite" directory; instead you should have edited the existing one in the "mysite/mysite" directory. The one you've created isn't being used at all.